Commission grants conditional approval to I-5 proposal
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon Transportation Commission has granted conditional approval for a path forward on a plan to expand Interstate 5…
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Thai Parliament approves election system charter change
By CHALIDA EKVITTHAYAVECHNUKUL Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s Parliament has approved a constitutional amendment changing how…
Continue ReadingN. Macedonia: 12 patients among 14 dead in COVID unit blaze
By KONSTANTIN TESTORIDES Associated Press SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Authorities in North Macedonia say forensic experts have identified the 14…
Continue ReadingSouth Africa jabs 2,000 children in test of Chinese vaccine
By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa has started vaccinating some children and adolescents as part of the global…
Continue ReadingSunil Perera, outspoken Sri Lankan singer, dies at age 68
By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sunil Perera, a versatile Sri Lankan singer, musician, composer and…
Continue ReadingUS producer prices jump an unprecedented 8.3% in August
By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation at the wholesale level climbed 8.3% last month from August 2020, the biggest annual…
Continue ReadingUS producer prices jump an unprecedented 8.3% in August
By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation at the wholesale level climbed 8.3% last month from August 2020, the biggest annual…
Continue ReadingLebanon gets a new government, its first since last year’s deadly port blast
By Tamara Qiblawi and Mostafa Salem, CNN A new government has been formed in crisis-ridden Lebanon, ending a more than year-long power vacuum that…
Continue ReadingUpside-down rhino experiment wins Ig Nobel Prize
By Sara Spary, CNN A team of researchers behind an experiment that involved hanging rhinoceroses upside down, suspended in the air by their feet, has…
Continue ReadingDoorDash, Grubhub, Uber Eats sue NYC over pandemic fee caps
By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Three of the nation’s largest food delivery companies are suing New York City over a limit on fees it put in…
Continue ReadingDoorDash, Grubhub, Uber Eats sue NYC over pandemic fee caps
By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer Three of the nation’s largest food delivery companies are suing New York City over a limit on fees it put in…
Continue ReadingGerman leadership candidate talks security amid party woes
BERLIN (AP) — The struggling center-right candidate to succeed German Chancellor Angela Merkel is touting his party’s law-and-order and security…
Continue ReadingAt scene of Ethiopia’s new killings, some fight, some flee
Associated Press CHENNA TEKLEHAYMANOT, Ethiopia (AP) — At the scene of one of the deadliest battles of Ethiopia’s 10-month Tigray conflict,…
Continue ReadingJapan vaccine minister seeks to be next prime minister
By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associatd Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s outspoken vaccinations minister, Taro Kono, has announced that he is running to become the…
Continue ReadingAmericans less positive about civil liberties: AP-NORC poll
By MEG KINNARD and EMILY SWANSON Associated Press A decade after the 9/11 attacks, Americans were reasonably positive about the state of their rights…
Continue Reading4th person accused of stealing IDs from Surfside victims
MIAMI (AP) — Authorities say a fourth person has been accused of stealing the identities of victims in the South Florida condominium collapse that…
Continue ReadingUK spy chief warns Taliban takeover could fuel terror plots
LONDON (AP) — The head of Britain’s domestic intelligence agency says the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan has “heartened and emboldened”…
Continue ReadingQueen Elizabeth supports Black Lives Matter movement, says senior representative
By Jack Guy, CNN Queen Elizabeth II and the royal family support Black Lives Matter (BLM), a senior representative has told UK broadcaster Channel 4.…
Continue ReadingLebanon’s new PM pledges to stabilize economic meltdown
By ZEINA KARAM and SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s new prime minister has pledged to try and gain control of one of the…
Continue ReadingEthiopia to expel UN officials amid fears of Tigray famine
CNN By Bethlehem Feleke, CNN Ethiopia is expelling seven senior United Nations officials for allegedly “meddling in the internal affairs of the…
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